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TIL The US is the global epicenter of tornado formation with an average of 1,200 each year. It’s the result of a unique geography that allows hot, dry air from the Southwest to flow atop moist, warm, unstable surface air east of the Rockies, with cold air at the jet-stream level overtopping it all

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XEZrD TIL of George R. Price, a population geneticist known for developing the most widely accepted mathematical interpretation of altruism. After realizing his equation implied that altruistic behavior serves an innate selfish purpose, Price became increasingly depressed and eventually committed suicide.
wLPZ6 TIL that singer Marvin Gaye was fatally shot the day before his birthday, by his own father (a Christian minister), by a gun that Marvin had gifted to him. Marvin was suicidal and physically hit his father because it was established that his father would kill any of his children who might do so.
Wk5BX TIL by the end of 2019 the US unemployment rate was lower than in every year since 1970, and lower than throughout most of the 50s and 60s.
AMEn TIL in 2013 a female professor gave a public lecture on men’s issues at the University of Ottawa. She was repeatedly interrupted by a group of about 30 students shouting and blasting horns. The talk was moved to another room, but somebody pulled the fire alarm, which effectively shut it down.
BgVle TIL of Old Bridge, Pontypridd (Originally called New Bridge). An arched single-span footbridge was built in 1756 for wagons but was deemed a failure as it was too narrow and too steep. With a length of 40m, it stood as the longest single-span bridge in the UK for 40 years after its completion.